Coronary disease
- Physiologic evaluation of coronary flow: the role of positron emission tomography
Quantitative documentation of the hemodynamic severity of coronary artery disease is more important than ever. A brief analysis of current imaging techniques.
- Survivors of sudden cardiac death: a rational approach to evaluation and therapy of patients surviving ventricular fibrillation
A strategy for identifying underlying disease, stratifying the risk of recurrence, and formulating specific therapy in these patients, at high risk for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
- Atrial natriuretic factor and catecholamine levels during exercise in patients with and without coronary artery disease
In coronary artery disease, exercise-induced myocardial ischemia does not produce further release of ANF, suggesting that the cause of ANF release is not ischemia itself, but left ventricular dysfunction leading to increases in intracardiac pressures.
- Treating hypertension to prevent coronary disease
Past successes and failures in treating hypertension suggest ways to provide better overall therapy and reduce the incidence of coronary heart disease.